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...developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...
Except for these compromises with the American stage tradition, the Scottish village of Brigadoon is a highly unique place to spend an evening. It is a phantom village, taken out of time by an ingenious miracle, into which two American travelers happen to wander one day. What happens to them provides the story, and when one of them accidentally kills one of the townsfolk, he precipitates the best scene of the show. This is the funeral, a wonderful mixture of dance and bagpipe music which is full of the fascination that such ceremonies in foreign lands often hold...
...decision," beamed a Scottish M.P., "will be greeted with a sigh of relief by the entire civilized world...
Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland...
Dawning Luminary. The origins of this dawning luminary lay in biographical penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet...